| |||||||||||||
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOMEDricot: A freasy future for GNOMEPosted Aug 11, 2012 18:03 UTC (Sat) by tjc (subscriber, #137)In reply to: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME by Company Parent article: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME
By the looks of it, most of them are on Debian stable and fear for the next release. I assume you are referring to this: switch default desktop task to xfce I see no reason for Debian Gnome users to fear, since Gnome will still be in the repository for those who want it.
(Log in to post comments)
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 13, 2012 9:58 UTC (Mon) by hendi (subscriber, #36257) [Link]
You know what sarcasm is, right?
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 13, 2012 22:02 UTC (Mon) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
Of course, but I try to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 16, 2012 19:27 UTC (Thu) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]
To be honest, I don't know why people think Debian or Ubuntu users of GNOME are left in the cold.
Haven't people tried GNOME 3 fallback-session/classic on Ubuntu or Debian ?
I've been running it since January.
That is GNOME3 which looks and feels like GNOME2. You can run it with effects or without.
It has been tuned by the people from Debian/Ubuntu-community and works just fine.
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 17, 2012 10:56 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Fallback still doesn't have the applets the old did. Plus, fallback looking like GNOME2 may be going away too. Fedora already has a software-rendered GNOME-shell for fallback.
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 17, 2012 11:02 UTC (Fri) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]
All the applets I use I could just choose and add just fine. It seems to use the (normal ?) gnome-panel.
Just one thing: ALT-right-mouse-button was needed to get the menu instead of just right-mouse-button.
But would that be a reason to keep a port of GNOME2 going in Mint and Fedora instead of keeping GNOME3-fallback working if the changed aren't accepted into the GNOME-project ?
Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME Posted Aug 17, 2012 13:41 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Indeed, and MATE is that fork: http://mate-desktop.org/ - packages available for a number of distros, including a Fedora repo. Should be in the stock Fedora 18 repos too, when that releases.
Bit sad that the GNOME developers didn't care to make it possible to parallel install GNOME3 with GNOME2, without doing a lot of work on renaming stuff. But hey.
|
|||||||||||||